+51 Grind : Forest of Kin ⁹
"Inhuman Instincts"
Luckily the skill wasn't on cooldown as this was my first time using it today , the purple 'Haste' mana covered me. The skill gave me the power to react to even a speck of dust , the Mid's eyes were reflecting my purple aura. The Garfon kept themselves near each other , which made it hard to separate them.
The Mid I attacked was healing in the middle of this group , to add more speed and power I used 'Dark Fuse'.
"Dark Fuse"
With that my speed was at it's maximum , I could increase it further with my Bloodline Transformation but the situation wasn't that dire yet. I took a step and in the next moment I was behind the injured Mid , the group looked around looking for me.
They turned their head towards the Injured Mid and saw me there standing besides him , They had a surprised look on their faces.Noticing me they jumped towards me trying to attack me with their kicks and punches. With every Mid in air , I held the injured one's head and used another skill.
"Boom Blast"
The Mid's blasted away except the one I held onto , some of them smashed on the trees in the surrounding while some went further away. The one I held onto started shaking , I lifted my hand and took my daggers out. Swinging my daggers left multiple cuts on its body.
「 You've dealt 4938 damage 」
「 You've dealt 5478 damage 」
「 You've dealt 5264 damage 」
...
「 You've gained 73848 Exp Points 」
Within just 4 seconds I was able to kill the Mid with a total of 13 cuts on it's body , the crazy 'Dark Fuse' strength boost and 'Inhuman Instincts' speed boost was the reason for this kind of result. Keeping my skill duration in my mind , I started killing the remaining Mid-Garfon's.
One of the blown away Mid who was still lying on the ground tried to stand up but couldn't as I already wounded it's legs. The other didn't just keep watching me and jumped in to fight against me , the group of Mid's surrounded me again. This time I had no route or skill to escape , I always tried to use the sword in this kind of situation to see if I can trigger it.
But as always it didn't react and I only had the daggers in my hand to go against this group , I first killed the Mid near me with my basic attacks. Suddenly a fist came flying aiming for my back , leaning towards right I was able to dodge it. I turned around and saw the Mid who tried to attack me.
Stabbing both of my daggers in it's abdomen and leaving them there , I quickly grabbed it's fist which was aiming for me. With my boosted strength I lifted it from the ground and forming an arc in the air slammed it into the ground. The impact made all the Mid's shake but wasn't enough to lose their footing , I quickly picked my daggers and started aiming for it's vital point.
The Mid's kept interrupting me when I was attacking but I was able to dodge their attacks with my agility while attacking the Mid on the ground. A kick aiming for my left shoulder , a punch aiming for my abdomen came flying towards me. But with my smooth and efficient movements I was able to dodge every single attack thrown towards me , these kind of movements and efficiency was impossible to display without 'Inhuman Instincts'.
My fireball was now off the cooldown time so this time I decided to make a bigger fireball which would deal AoE damage to the Garfons. I first deactivated my 'Inhuman Instincts' to lessen my mana consumption and then started creating a fireball in my hand. My plan was to bring the Mid's close to each other and then attack them with my fireball.
With 'Dark Fuse' my MP also increased which meant that I could create a bigger fireball. My speed wasn't like it was before but it still helped to defend against the Mid's. I ran around them in circles to keep them near each other , the fireball was still charging and now was half the size of my body.
This decreased my speed and I had to use both of my hands to keep the fireball still charging. The size grew as I stalled the monsters , finally all of the Mid's were close to each other. 5 minutes passed and I still was able to use 'Dark Fuse' with my increased MP.
「 Your MP is less than 20% of your max MP 」
'Nice this means that I still have some MP left if I've to escape , whew the fireball is like double the size of me right now.'
It was ridiculous how much the fireball grew , it displayed 75% of my max mana. My hands couldn't hold it any longer which is why I decided to finally aim for the Mid's. I jumped in the air as high as possible with a giant ball of mana in my hand , and looked down at the group of Mid's trying to get away from each other but it was too late now.
"Crimson Fireball"
Swinging my hands with all the boosted strength the fireball left my hands , aiming for the group of Mid's.
"Hah Hah Hah. Even if my aim... is bad the size should be... able to compensate for that. Hah"
「 Your MP is less than 10% of your max MP 」
I didn't pay much attention to the message and looked at the humongous fireball flying towards the monsters. A Mid tried to block it with it's bare hands , seeing it all the Mid's started to lift their hands trying to block the attack.
The fireball finally came in contact with the hand , the fireball's size was double of me but when it blew everything in the 10m radius of it blew. I looked at the sky and saw the crimson flames reaching for it , but this attempt was a failure.
'Why are you so useless at times like this?'
<...>
The flames were able to reach me too , but it didn't do any damage as I immune to then because of the mask. Suddenly a line of messages started popping up infront of me.
「 You've dealt 89373 damage 」
「 You've dealt 88363 damage 」
「 You've dealt 88902 damage 」
...
「 You've gained 92732 Exp Points 」
「 You've gained 102373 Exp Points 」
「 You've gained 99173 Exp Points 」
...
「 You've leveled up 」
「 You've leveled up 」
「 You've leveled up 」
「 Crimson Fireball lvl 1 » Crimson Fireball lvl 2」
"Nice , 89,000 damage. Thank God all of them are dead."
'The reason of this ridiculous damage lies in the buffs of multiple skills , 'Dark Fuse' with fully unlocked potential it boosted my stats by 60%. This 60% further increased to 78% with the C-Ranked skillbook I got when I completed reach 250 Intelligence sub quest.'
'With my max MP almost double the damage of fireball also increased , this was because my max MP decided the damage my fireball did. With 840% damage of 'Crimson Fireball' and 501% extra damage for charging it for 5 minutes'
'Oh look at you , aren't you growing. It's sad that you understanding my buffs makes me feel proud.'
'Yeah , the system said that I did. So I guess you could say it.'
'Crimson Fireball leveled up huh.'
Total of 14 Mid's were killed in that attack , luckily none of them were able to escape from my attack. With all of them cleared I was able to level up 3 more times , the Exp they gave was higher than I expected. Seeing how my leveling up speed decreased as I went deeper in forest , I went in expecting leveling up 1 time once I clear the whole base.
'Mana Infuse , Hah. I don't think I can learn it on my own , let's just invest in strength atleast that will be helpful in future.'
I invested 14 stat points in Strength so that it'll reach 250 stat points , the 236 bugged me for some reason.
「 Congratulations!!! The requirements for swordmage class has been met 」
「 A new sub quest will be created 」
「
Quest : Awaken as a Swordmage
Rank : A
Objective : Learn the Serven Swordmage Techniques
Rewards : Special class : Swordmage
Requirements : Serven Swordmage Techniques
Time Limit : 70 days
」
'So now I just have to complete the monster killing quest. By the way how many have I killed till now?'
"Show 'Kill the Monster' Objective"
「 Kill 301 monsters with higher level than you [146/301] 」
I let out a huge sigh seeing the number lesser than I expected.
"Hah. Still a long way to go"
Seeing the word monsters , I thought of the weird Mid-Garfon I saw on the base.
'Will he still be on the base?'
'Hah. Useless.'